Gambit, Inc.

Gambit, Inc. is a publishing company dedicated to quality chess books for players of all levels. Three editors/chess players — John Nunn, Graham Burgess, and Murray Chandler — founded the London-based publisher in early 1997. Nunn and Burgess met while working for general publisher B.T. Batsford, which first introduced its own chess list in the late 1960s and had been considered the world’s leading chess book publisher for many years following. However, Burgess was unhappy with more recent developments at the firm and approached Nunn with the idea of setting up a company that exclusively published chess books. The two recognized that they lacked business management experience and decided to recruit Chandler, who was owner and managing director of the British Chess Magazine at the time.

As Gambit worked to establish a reputation in the publishing industry and develop its own list, the company undertook some work for other publishers such as Cadogan Chess (now Everyman Chess). As of 1999, Gambit has focused solely on its own books and has now published over 180 titles, eleven of which have been translated into German and five into Spanish.